In May 2001, China, which had just joined the WTO, ushered in a banana crisis in Hainan, which also allowed China, which had not experienced a trade war for a long time, to experience the baptism of a trade war.

In May 2001, China, which had just joined WTO , ushered in a banana crisis in Hainan, which also allowed China, which had not experienced a trade war for a long time, to experience the baptism of .

How did things happen?

turned out to be a multinational fruit company called Jinjida . It used nearly unlimited to dump , exporting a large number of bananas to the Chinese market, and placing the price of bananas in one fell swoop.

This move made people in Hainan banana farmers who had never seen any market at that time were frightened.

The purchase price of bananas in the fields has dropped from more than 1 pound and 1 yuan to 8 cents to 1 cent per pound, a drop of up to 90%.

(Hainan Banana Farmer)

This situation made Banana Farmer panic and also made Hainan officials stunned. Don’t you play like this?

So, with the efforts of the people and the officials to resist, it took more than three months to finally rise to about 70 cents per catty, and it would not lose all its money and become a tragedy.

When he saw that resistance was so tenacious, Jinjida changed his tactics after making money and learned from another multinational company.

This company is the "dole Dole" Food Co., Ltd., which has been trademarked by countless Chinese people today.

(dole fruit)

This Dole Food Co., Ltd. has a long history and was established in 1851, which is the first year of Xianfeng.

That year was the year of turbulence in China.

Under the pre-influence of Opium War , the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement storms swept across the entire southeast, and also caused a severe blow to the Qing Dynasty, which had been peaceful for a long time.

Just when the East was changing, Dole (Dole), the predecessor of the company, The American "standard fruit company" was born. The company later joined and to change the fate of many American countries with its company's strength.

These two companies are not leaking in China, but in the eyes of Americans, they are comparable to or even stronger than or even stronger than the orphans.

(map)

And these two super companies have joined forces for the first time, and the country they are attacking is Honduras .

Honduras should be considered a tragic country in the Americas. In 1502 AD, the Italian navigator Columbus and his crew set foot on this land on the west coast of the Caribbean Sea for the first time. After

got ashore, Columbus gave the land a name : Honduras. What does

mean? Bottomless abyss. ( Spanish meaning)

This is like the curse at the beginning of Honduras, making this small Central American country difficult for the future.

This is not peaceful.

Today, it looks like the crime rate is high and the murder rate is the highest in the world.

Yesterday, it was political turmoil, and coup incidents continued.

All of this also have data to prove.

According to statistics, from 2010 to 2014, 20 people were murdered every day in Honduras, and 87 people died of murder in every 100,000 people.

This means that Honduras, a small country with a population of 11 million, dies from murder every year. What do you say about

? It's a bit scary!

We all know one truth: most of the causes of confusion are related to poverty.

Of course, there are also high murder rates but endless.

For example, this weird thing in the United States.

(Murder Country)

says the history of Honduras is the history of turmoil and coups.

This country first appeared on September 15, 1821, when Honduras announced its independence.

can be independent just a few months ago, and the Hondurans repent and chose to incorporate , the first empire of Mexico, became a part of Mexico, and later joined the Central American Federation in 1823.

From this story, we can see that as a country, Honduras has little concentration and no opinion.

As expected, just 15 years after joining the Central American Federation, Honduras chose to withdraw from the Central American Federation and established its own republic.

(Flag of the Central American Federation)

The establishment of this republic is thanks to Guatemala dictator Rafael Carrera . It was he who chose to support the local conservative warlord Francisco Ferrera of Honduras that led to the birth of the Republic of Honduras in 1840.

In short, when China was still the Qing Dynasty and was about to usher in the Opium War, a small country, Honduras, had a republic ruled by an authoritarian government.

The founder of the country, the conservative warlord Francisco Ferreira, has the label of warlords and conservatives.

What the warlords mean is well known to the Chinese people, and conservatives are also synonymous with no desire for change, which makes the new Honduras more genes of swaying and turbulent.

has no reason, it is just unpopular.

What embarrasses the Hondurans even more is that the turbulent gene inheritance from the beginning of the founding of the country has long made Hondurans the country with the most frequent coups in Latin America. From independence in 1821 to 1978, Honduras experienced 139 coups.

This more than 100 coups have left Honduras in turmoil for a long time, and has also allowed intentional international capital to gain the possibility of maneuvering.

(banana)

Then, Standard Fruit Company and United Fruit Company started a double ghost shooting operation.

What does this pair of ghost slap the door mean? It's easy to understand, it's just the art of war.

Starting from the 19th century, these two companies began to penetrate, enter, and even control the rhythm of Honduras from the south and north directions respectively.

Why do these two companies value Honduras so much?

is related to the geographical location of Honduras.

You can understand this by looking at the world map. As long as American capital handles Honduras, it is equivalent to opening the entire Central American Strait and opening the door to the entire North and South America.

is based on this, and they have achieved success in parallel and fruitful results.

In the first half of the 20th century, the two companies were backed by the strong US government and were rampant in Honduras. It occupies almost all the high-quality arable land in northern Honduras.

With arable land, there is economic strength. With the endorsement of the US government, fruit companies have become an existence that can control the Honduras economy. However, these two companies still feel that it is not enough. In order to strengthen their influence, they even formed their own armed mercenaries and had the ability to use military intervention to influence the political situation in Honduras.

This may be an alternative economic colonization.

I don't have to occupy your territory, but I can interfere with almost all the outputs and even everything in your territory.

, such current situation and economic situation, gave Honduras an nickname, which is: " Banana Republic " .

So in addition to the influence of these two companies, what other factors have made a country synonymous with bananas.

(Honduras topographic map)

This is what we need to talk about the tragic past of Honduras.

In the 19th century, a British diplomat started chatting sincerely after meeting a Honduran MP.

What the two talked about is unknown, but a move by the Honduran MP impressed the British diplomats.

He picked up a piece of letter paper, put it in the palm of his hand and rubbed it for a while, then threw the paper on the table and said loudly to everyone around him : Please see, this is the terrain of our Honduras.

What is the implication of this?

just uses an image to interpret the terrain of Honduras : a mountainous country with mountains that stretching thousands of miles and can be seen everywhere within the country.

(Maya civilization)

This mountain range has made Honduras a place of civilization, and its economy has not been able to develop.

From the Age of Discovery, American civilization was not very developed, because there were no oxen, nor were there any easy-to-excavate copper ore and iron ore. American civilization has been playing in Stone Age for a long time, and

, you can understand this when you look at the longest-lasting Mayan civilization in America.

This civilization, which had appeared in 400 BC, developed in 1900. It had not yet entered the Iron and Even the Bronze Age when Europeans began the Age of Discovery in the 15th century.

Without bronze , without iron, it means no agricultural tools, no agricultural tools, and no plowing oxen, which means underdeveloped agriculture.

Agriculture is underdeveloped. How does this civilization reproduce, how can it transform nature, and use stones?

(Lost civilization)

So, the lag of civilization becomes inevitable!

The development of the strongest civilization in the Americas has lagged behind thousands of years, let alone Honduras, which is blocked by mountains.

If it weren't for the colonists' invasion, Honduras would have accepted civilization from the West. It has always allowed them to develop naturally, perhaps today Honduras are all unmanned lands and primitive tribes.

So what did the Westerners who claim to be civilized do after they came?

The answer is mining!

Mountains mean minerals, which is a necessity of geographical conditions, and it also made Honduras use mineral exports as its main income in the 50 years of its independence.

Compared with Guatemala, El Salvador , Nicaragua , Costa Rica , and Costa Rica , Honduras is undoubtedly poor and is particularly eager to develop. Although mining is a good thing, it is not only a matter of destroying the environment (it was nothing in that era), but the employment that can be driven is limited and requires a huge investment. Western countries invested in it and made a big profit. This is not enough for Hondurans to drink soup.

The so-called "poor people are poor and have short ambitions and have no money" gives two major fruit companies opportunities.

Hondurans who have nothing but minerals are extremely happy after hearing that they can actually grow fruits in their territory.

is finally able to stop mining, and there is another industry that can make money in addition to selling minerals.

has industrial potential, of course it should encourage development.

This is why there are two major fruit companies that have made great strides in Honduras, enclosed land as kings, and become giants in the country.

The truth behind this is poor.

Because of the mountains, Honduras civilization lags behind, economic development cannot rise, because the economy cannot rise, Honduras is poor, and eventually becomes the territory of fruit companies.

It is because of the mountains and poverty that Honduras has become a turbulent country.

Why is this? Because I am the king of the mountain!

More than a century after Honduras' independence, due to the barrier of mountains, a stable national structure has been unable to be formed. Behind a mountain is a separatist force.

This has made Honduras localism prevail, the public consensus is weak, and the central government has financial difficulties, which has also made Honduras have two central cities.

One is the original capital Komayagua.

One is the current Tegucigalpa .

When the Latin American independence movement was in turmoil, these two cities also became the base camps of conservatives and liberals in Redduras due to history and colonists, leading the era of infighting in Honduras.

This struggle lasted for more than 50 years, and under the strong push of the liberal Kaudirou, Honduras made the capital : Tegucigalpa .

can capital although it has been settled, the struggle continues.

The mountains that stretch thousands of miles are full of local forces, which makes it impossible for the central government to pass on to the local governments.

All of this also made countless knowledgeable people in Hondurans think of ways.

In the mid-19th century, before fruit became the pillar of Honduras' economy, the Hondurasian military and oligarchs thought that the only way to achieve political harmony is to combine the broken territory. How to pinch

? Building a railway may be a good idea!

(Railway Age)

Therefore, a large amount of mineral income was invested in railway construction, but the endless resistance of local forces and funding problems made the Honduras railway plan slow to advance, and the difficulty of the project also made European contractors sigh.

After a while, after more than 20 years of construction, Honduras has only built 50 miles of railway, which is completely insignificant.

Until the 1920s, Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, still had no railway connection. Instead, the country owed 30 million pounds of foreign debts because of the railway construction, and hollowed out the national treasury, without even a sound.

The subsequent Great Depression of 1929 made Honduras half-death.

After the Great Depression , Honduras became the poorest country in Central America, and it remains the same today.

As for Hongyuan, which builds railways, it may require the help of infrastructure maniacs to achieve it, but they have not established diplomatic relations with us yet!

, a country that has not completed integration, has staggered to this day, gaining two nicknames, "The Bottomless Abyss" and "Banana Republic", and has also become the country with the highest murder rate in the world.

What is the ultimate source of all this?

The answer is the same sentence : Too far from heaven, too close to the United States. I can summarize this in one sentence.

What is the general situation in Latin American countries now?

They have not become "world factories", and there is no possibility of becoming "world laboratories". Even compared with Southeast Asia, their manufacturing industry is weaker. Apart from resource exports and agricultural products, there are not many advantageous industries in Latin America.

What makes Latin Americans even more difficult to think is that the entire Latin American country is almost the world of American multinational companies, especially emerging fields such as the Internet, where American companies have completely occupied Latin America.

Many wise Latin American countries have begun to develop a big power balance strategy, hoping to save the situation, but Latin America's strategy of making a big power balance strategy does not have the same geopolitical conditions as Southeast Asia.

Latin America has always been the backyard of the United States, and since " Monroe Manifesto ", it has become the territory of the United States. This means that the United States has a stable hegemony in Latin America, which also makes the United States lack the will to support the Latin American economy. In addition, in-depth economic penetration has made Latin American countries increasingly dissatisfied with the United States.

This dissatisfaction is that many countries have disagree with the United States, and there are also left-wing governments in Latin America in recent years. After things like

became a trend, the future of infrastructure maniacs appearing in Latin America to build railways is not far away.